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It always seemed to us that the Committee which had the award of the prizes at BARNUM'S baby show, must have had about as puzzling a job on hand as could well be selected. But our contemporary, the Commercial, of Cincinnati, seems to have voluntarily undertaken one still more difficult-namely, to decide what was the most foolish thing said during the whole

May 30, 1868

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